JUNEAU –Â A new draft of the marijuana crime bill is expected in the House Judiciary Committee next week.
The Senate in March passed a version of the bill drafted in the Senate Finance Committee that kept marijuana as a controlled substance in Alaska. The crime bill would update state laws to reflect what remains illegal after Alaska voters legalized limited recreational marijuana last year.
House Judiciary chair Gabrielle LeDoux, R-Anchorage, said the new draft expected to come before her committee will be based more on the work done in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would have removed marijuana from the state’s list of controlled substances.
